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Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has become increasingly important as robots are being integrated into various aspects of daily life. One key aspect of HRI is gesture recognition, which allows robots to interpret and respond to human gestures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Sandeep Reddy Sabbella , Sara Kaszuba , Francesco Leotta , Pascal Serrarens , Daniele Nardi

Most current anthropomorphic robotic hands can realize part of the human hand functions, particularly for object grasping. However, due to the complexity of the human hand, few current designs target at daily object manipulations, even for…

Humans are able to convey different messages using only touch. Equipping robots with the ability to understand social touch adds another modality in which humans and robots can communicate. In this paper, we present a social gesture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Dakarai Crowder , Kojo Vandyck , Xiping Sun , James McCann , Wenzhen Yuan

Gestures are a natural form of communication between humans and can also be leveraged for human-robot interaction. This work presents a gesture-based user interface for object selection using pointing and click gestures. An experiment with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Bijan Kavousian , Oliver Petrovic , Werner Herfs

Gesture recognition is mainly apprehensive on analyzing the functionality of human wits. The main goal of gesture recognition is to create a system which can recognize specific human gestures and use them to convey information or for device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Harshith C , Karthik R. Shastry , Manoj Ravindran , M. V. V. N. S. Srikanth , Naveen Lakshmikhanth

Gesture interaction is a natural way of communicating with a robot as an alternative to speech. Gesture recognition methods leverage optical flow in order to understand human motion. However, while accurate optical flow estimation (i.e.,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jen-Yen Chang , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Tatsuya Harada

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Biswarup Ganguly , Amit Konar

In recent years, usage and applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles has grown rapidly. Interaction of divers with the AUVs remains an integral part of the usage of AUVs for various applications and makes building robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Sudeep Mangalvedhekar , Shreyas Nahar , Sudarshan Maskare , Kaushal Mahajan , Anant Bagade

This study mainly explores the application of natural gesture recognition based on computer vision in human-computer interaction, aiming to improve the fluency and naturalness of human-computer interaction through gesture recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Fenghua Shao , Tong Zhang , Shang Gao , Qi Sun , Liuqingqing Yang

This paper proposes a novel approach to recognizing dynamic hand gestures facilitating seamless interaction between humans and robots. Here, each robot manipulator task is assigned a specific gesture. There may be several such tasks, hence,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dharmendra Sharma , Peeyush Thakur , Sandeep Gupta , Narendra Kumar Dhar , Laxmidhar Behera

This paper proposes an interactive system for mobile devices controlled by hand gestures aimed at helping people with visual impairments. This system allows the user to interact with the device by making simple static and dynamic hand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Samer Alashhab , Antonio Javier Gallego , Miguel Ángel Lozano

Augmented reality (AR) offers immersive interaction but remains inaccessible for users with motor impairments or limited dexterity due to reliance on precise input methods. This study proposes a gesture-based interaction system for AR…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yikan Wang

Static and dynamic hand movements are basic way for human-machine interactions. To recognize and classify these movements, first these movements are captured by the cameras mounted on the augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Nizamuddin Maitlo , Yanbo Wang , Chao Ping Chen , Lantian Mi , Wenbo Zhang

At the present time, hand gestures recognition system could be used as a more expected and useable approach for human computer interaction. Automatic hand gesture recognition system provides us a new tactic for interactive with the virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Nabil Belhaj Khalifa , Shahram Jamali

Hand gesture is one of the most important means of touchless communication between human and machines. There is a great interest for commanding electronic equipment in surgery rooms by hand gesture for reducing the time of surgery and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Nader Karimi , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , M. Hossein Jafari , M. Amin Khorsandi , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Touch is an important channel for human-robot interaction, while it is challenging for robots to recognize human touch accurately and make appropriate responses. In this paper, we design and implement a set of large-format distributed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lishuang Zhan , Yancheng Cao , Qitai Chen , Haole Guo , Jiasi Gao , Yiyue Luo , Shihui Guo , Guyue Zhou , Jiangtao Gong

Purpose - Most industrial robots are still programmed using the typical teaching process, through the use of the robot teach pendant. This is a tedious and time-consuming task that requires some technical expertise, and hence new approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Pedro Neto , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

Visually-guided underwater robots are deployed alongside human divers for cooperative exploration, inspection, and monitoring tasks in numerous shallow-water and coastal-water applications. The most essential capability of such companion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Md Jahidul Islam

Collaborative robots became a popular tool for increasing productivity in partly automated manufacturing plants. Intuitive robot teaching methods are required to quickly and flexibly adapt the robot programs to new tasks. Gestures have an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Petr Vanc , Jan Kristof Behrens , Karla Stepanova

Robot-to-human object handover is an essential skill for robot assistants, from serving drinks at home to passing surgical tools in the operating room. We expect robots to perform handover robustly -- to release the object only after a firm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Linfeng Li , Lin Shao , David Hsu